National Security Agency
National Security Agency is named in 73 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1943 to 2025.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-09 | Director of National Intelligence Gabbard Orders NSA Report Retraction to Shield Trump Officials Tulsi Gabbard · Richard Grenell · National Security Agency · Marco Rubio | reported | |
| 2025-08-01 | Far-Right Activist Laura Loomer Orchestrates Mass Loyalty Purges Across Trump Administration Laura Loomer · Donald Trump · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | Surveillance State Expansion: Constitutional Concerns and Section 702 Reauthorization Intelligence Community · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · White House · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Amazon AWS Government Contracts Reach Multi-Billion Dollar Annual Scale Amazon Web Services · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Pentagon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-07-27 | Daniel Hale Sentenced to 45 Months for Exposing Drone War Crimes Daniel Hale · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2018-06-15 | Northrop Grumman Wins $217 Million Cyber Warfare Contract for Unified Platform Northrop Grumman · U.S. Cyber Command · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2017-06-03 | Reality Winner Arrested for Leaking Russian Election Interference Report Reality Winner · National Security Agency · The Intercept · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-06 | Intelligence Community Assessment Concludes Putin Ordered Campaign to Influence 2016 Election Vladimir Putin · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-29 | NSA Officially Ends Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Under USA Freedom Act National Security Agency · U.S. Congress · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-06-02 | Obama Signs USA FREEDOM Act, Ending NSA Bulk Metadata Collection Barack Obama · Mitch McConnell · Ron Wyden · Rand Paul · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-05-07 | Second Circuit Rules NSA Bulk Phone Metadata Collection Illegal Under Patriot Act Second Circuit Court of Appeals · Gerard Lynch · National Security Agency · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 2014-09-17 | Apple Announces iOS 8 Encryption Makes iPhones Unlockable Even by Apple Apple · Tim Cook · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-04 | Germany Opens Criminal Investigation Into NSA Tapping of Merkel's Phone Angela Merkel · Harald Range · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2014-05-01 | Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Founds IronNet Cybersecurity, Charges $1 Million/Month for Intelligence Expertise Keith Alexander · IronNet Cybersecurity · National Security Agency · Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-17 | Obama Announces Limited NSA Reforms While Preserving Core Surveillance Programs Barack Obama · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2014-01-16 | NSA DISHFIRE Program Collects Nearly 200 Million Text Messages Daily Worldwide National Security Agency · GCHQ · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-16 | Federal Judge Rules NSA Bulk Phone Data Collection Likely Unconstitutional Richard Leon · National Security Agency · Larry Klayman | confirmed | |
| 2013-12-05 | Tech Companies Launch Transparency Reports After NSA Revelations Google · Microsoft · Yahoo · Facebook · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-24 | NSA Monitored Angela Merkel's Phone and 35 Other World Leaders National Security Agency · Angela Merkel · Barack Obama · Edward Snowden | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-21 | Microsoft and Google Challenge NSA Gag Orders in Federal Court Microsoft · Google · Brad Smith · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-10-02 | Yahoo's Secret FISA Court Battle Against PRISM Revealed Yahoo · National Security Agency · FISA Court · Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review | confirmed | |
| 2013-09-17 | Brazil's President Cancels US State Visit Over NSA Spying on Dilma Rousseff Dilma Rousseff · Barack Obama · National Security Agency · Edward Snowden · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2013-08-08 | Lavabit Encrypted Email Service Shuts Down Rather Than Comply with NSA Demands Ladar Levison · Lavabit · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-10 | Booz Allen Fires Snowden, Exposing How a Contractor Employee of Three Months Accessed NSA's Deepest Secrets Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · Ralph Shrader · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-06 | Washington Post and Guardian Reveal NSA PRISM Program for Direct Server Access Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · Bart Gellman · National Security Agency · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2013-06-05 | Guardian Publishes First Snowden Leak on NSA Verizon Phone Records Collection Edward Snowden · Glenn Greenwald · National Security Agency · Verizon | confirmed | |
| 2013-01-01 | 70% of $80 billion intelligence budget goes to private contractors Intelligence Community · Private contractors · Edward Snowden · Booz Allen Hamilton · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-08 | Thomas Drake Indicted Under Espionage Act for NSA Whistleblowing Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · Obama Administration · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2008-08-29 | Bush Privatizes 70% of Intelligence Budget to Contractors Bush Administration · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · CACI · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-31 | Carlyle Group Acquires Booz Allen Hamilton for $2.54 Billion, Private Equity Owns Major Intelligence Contractor Carlyle Group · Booz Allen Hamilton · Ralph Shrader · National Security Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-07-31 | FISA Court Finds NSA Surveillance Programs Systematically Unconstitutional FISA Court · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · Michael Hayden · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2008-05-06 | Tim Shorrock Publishes "Spies for Hire," First Comprehensive Account of Intelligence Outsourcing Tim Shorrock · Booz Allen Hamilton · SAIC · CACI International · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2008-03-20 | Sprint Nextel GPS Location Data Sharing with Law Enforcement Sprint Nextel · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · Law Enforcement Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2007-11-15 | Thomas Drake Reports NSA Trailblazer Program Waste and Constitutional Violations Thomas Drake · National Security Agency · DOD Inspector General · Trailblazer Program · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2007-08-01 | Verizon's Deep Involvement in NSA Surveillance Programs Bush Administration · National Security Agency · Verizon Communications | confirmed | |
| 2007-04-01 | FISA Court Judge Rejects NSA Warrantless Surveillance Expansion Roger Vinson · FISA Court · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-01-01 | Palantir Begins Rapid Expansion Across U.S. Government Agencies Palantir Technologies · Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2006-05-08 | Michael Hayden Nominated as CIA Director Despite NSA Surveillance Controversy Michael Hayden · George W. Bush · Senate Intelligence Committee · National Security Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2006-01-29 | NSA Cancels Trailblazer Program After SAIC Wastes Over $1 Billion on Failed Surveillance System Science Applications International Corporation · National Security Agency · Michael Hayden · William Binney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-16 | New York Times Exposes NSA Warrantless Surveillance Program James Risen · Eric Lichtblau · New York Times · George W. Bush · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-12-15 | NSA Whistleblower Russell Tice Reports Illegal Domestic Surveillance Russell Tice · National Security Agency · Senate Intelligence Committee · James Risen · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2003-09-24 | Congress Officially Defunds Total Information Awareness Program U.S. Congress · United States Senate · U.S. House of Representatives · George W. Bush · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2003-06-30 | General Dynamics Acquires Veridian for $1.5 Billion, Entering Intelligence Technology Market General Dynamics · Veridian Corporation · Department of Defense · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2003-03-14 | Yoo OLC Memo Exempts 'Wartime' Domestic Surveillance from Fourth Amendment — Stealth Authorization of NSA Warrantless Wiretap Program John C. Yoo · Jay Bybee · William Haynes II · Michael Hayden · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2003-02-28 | NSA Officer Kwiatkowski Documents OSP-WHIG Intelligence Corruption as Whistleblower Karen Kwiatkowski · Office of Special Plans · White House Iraq Group · Douglas Feith · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2002-01-15 | Post-9/11 Intelligence Budget Surge Begins, Contractor Spending Will Triple by 2007 George W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2001-11-01 | NSA Launches MAINWAY Database for Mass Metadata Collection National Security Agency · AT&T · Verizon · T-Mobile · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2001-10-04 | Bush Authorizes NSA Stellar Wind Program Bypassing FISA Court George W. Bush · Michael Hayden · National Security Agency · Dick Cheney · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2001-09-21 | AT&T Establishes Mass Internet Surveillance Infrastructure for NSA AT&T Corporate Leadership · National Security Agency · Bush Administration · Mark Klein (AT&T Technician) | confirmed | |
| 2000-04-05 | Duncan Campbell Delivers Interception Capabilities 2000 Report to European Parliament, Forces ECHELON Inquiry Duncan Campbell · European Parliament · STOA (Scientific and Technological Options Assessment) · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1999-04-05 | NSA Launches NSANet Classified Network Consolidation, Fort Meade Reaches "Crypto City" Scale Michael Hayden · National Security Agency · Barbara McNamara | confirmed | |
| 1998-10-30 | NSA's Menwith Hill Station UK Expansion Completed, Reaches 1,200+ Personnel and Peak ECHELON Capacity National Security Agency · Government Communications Headquarters · Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) | confirmed | |
| 1998-09-01 | Narus Founded, Israeli-Origin Deep-Packet-Inspection Firm Becomes NSA Infrastructure Supplier Narus Inc. · Ori Cohen · Stas Khirman · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-06-01 | NSA Creates Signals Intelligence Automation Research Center, Binney and Wiebe Lead Bulk-Collection Technical Design William Binney · J. Kirk Wiebe · Ed Loomis · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1996-07-01 | Nicky Hager Publishes Secret Power, First Detailed Public Description of ECHELON System Nicky Hager · Government Communications Security Bureau · National Security Agency · Craig Potton Publishing · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1994-09-13 | Intelligence Community Deploys Intelink, Classified Web-Based Network Enabling Bulk Information Sharing James Woolsey · R. James Woolsey · Central Intelligence Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1994-06-02 | Matt Blaze Publishes Clipper Chip Security Flaw, Demonstrates Key-Escrow Bypassability Matt Blaze · AT&T Bell Labs · National Security Agency · National Institute of Standards and Technology | confirmed | |
| 1993-04-16 | Clinton White House Announces Clipper Chip, NSA-Designed Backdoor Encryption with Government Key Escrow Bill Clinton · Al Gore · National Security Agency · National Institute of Standards and Technology · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1991-06-15 | FBI Cellular Surveillance Pilot Programs Establish Mass-Collection Template Before CALEA Federal Bureau of Investigation · William Sessions · Harris Corporation · National Security Agency | confirmed | |
| 1988-08-12 | Duncan Campbell's New Statesman Article First Publicly Names ECHELON Surveillance Network Duncan Campbell · Margaret Newsham · Government Communications Headquarters · National Security Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1982-09-20 | Bamford's The Puzzle Palace Published, First Book-Length Public History of NSA After 30 Years of Denial James Bamford · National Security Agency · Houghton Mifflin · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 1981-12-04 | Reagan Signs Executive Order 12333, Loosening Intelligence Restrictions and Enabling Private Contractor Involvement Ronald Reagan · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Defense Intelligence Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-28 | Church Committee Exposes Psychological Manipulation Techniques in Government Operations Senator Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community · Donald Ewen Cameron · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-26 | Church Committee Exposes Systemic Intelligence Agency Abuses Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses Senator Frank Church · Senator John Tower · US Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1975-01-27 | Church Committee begins exposing illegal intelligence activities Senator Frank Church · Church Committee · Mike Mansfield · Seymour Hersh · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1970-07-14 | Nixon Approves Huston Plan Authorizing Illegal Surveillance, Rescinded After Hoover Objects Richard Nixon · Tom Charles Huston · J. Edgar Hoover · Richard Helms · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1967-07-01 | NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens Marshall Carter · Louis Tordella · National Security Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1964-08-07 | Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Passes Based on Fabricated Second Attack Authorizing Vietnam War Escalation President Lyndon B. Johnson · Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · National Security Agency · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 1959-05-29 | Congress Passes NSA Act of 1959 (P.L. 86-36) Exempting NSA From Disclosure of Its Own Functions 86th Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · National Security Agency · Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 1952-11-04 | Truman Creates National Security Agency by Classified Directive, Existence Classified for 23 Years Harry S. Truman · Ralph Canine · National Security Agency · Armed Forces Security Agency | confirmed | |
| 1945-09-01 | Project SHAMROCK Begins, NSA Obtains Copies of All International Cables for 30 Years Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Agency · Western Union · ITT Communications · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1943-02-01 | Army Signal Intelligence Service Begins VENONA Soviet Cable Decryption, Foundation for Post-War Counterintelligence Gene Grabeel · Meredith Gardner · Army Signal Intelligence Service · Carter Clarke · +2 | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Central Intelligence Agency
14× shared
Edward Snowden
12× shared
Federal Bureau of Investigation
12× shared
Michael Hayden
10× shared
Department of Justice
9× shared
Barack Obama
7× shared
Booz Allen Hamilton
6× shared
U.S. Congress
6× shared
Bush Administration
5× shared
FISA Court
5× shared
George W. Bush
5× shared
Dick Cheney
4× shared
SAIC
4× shared
AT&T
3× shared
Defense Intelligence Agency
3× shared
Department of Defense
3× shared
Glenn Greenwald
3× shared
Google
3× shared
Government Communications Headquarters
3× shared
Intelligence Community
3× shared
Microsoft
3× shared
Senator Frank Church
3× shared
Yahoo
3× shared
American Civil Liberties Union
2× shared
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